By Tommy DeSeno

Monmouth Democrat Chairman David Brown
The job of a county party chair is to ensure that candidates have no unforced errors, usually handled in the vetting process. Democrat Chairman David Brown’s candidates this year have self-inflicted wounds. He has dumped support for several of his own candidates, a sign of his own failure. The Monmouth Democrat Party needs to strip him of his chairmanship for this collapse.
By the way – the correct pronunciation for “The Monmouth Democrat Party” is “Vin Gopal.” That’s who needs to dump Brown.
Let’s look at how David Brown treated two women very differently for their words about cops.
Jeana Sager is a Democrat candidate for the Township Council in Middletown. I’m not here to articulate her true feelings about cops because I don’t know them. I don’t know them because David Brown sewed her mouth shut like a character on “A Handmaid’s Tale” before she could explain.
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Posted: November 4th, 2019 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2019 elections, Monmouth County, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democrats, Opinion, Tommy DeSeno | Tags: 2019 elections, Dave Brown, Jeana Sager, Moira Nelson, Monmouth Democrats, Opinion, Thomas DeSeno, Tom DeSeno, Tommy DeSeno | 6 Comments »
It’s An Issue Of Credibility…

Kathy Hogan and Gary Moll, Candidates for Neptune Township Committee
By Kendra Hogan and Gary Moll, Candidates for Neptune Township Committee
Since the first Candidates Forum in Neptune Township on September 23rd, one particular issue has been brought to the attention of all of the candidates for Township Committee several times; that of the possible health risks of Verizon’s 5G wireless transmitters. Kendra Hogan & Gary Moll, the Republican candidates, have favored a “go slow” approach citing a number of studies. However, this issue is one where one of their opponents, Carol Rizzo’s credibility comes into question. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: October 31st, 2019 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2019 elections, Monmouth County News, Neptune Township | Tags: 2019 elections, Carol Rizzo, Gary Moll, Kathy Hogan, Monmouth County News, Neptune Township | 14 Comments »

Sheriff Shaun Golden points to the monthly charge on phone bills that Trenton globs instead of investing in 9-1-1 systems
Freehold, NJ, October 22, 2019- Lt. Shawn M. Reece, President of FOP Lodge #30, Monmouth County Superior Officers, is pleased to announce the union’s endorsement of Sheriff Shaun Golden for reelection on November 5, 2019.
“Under Sheriff Golden’s leadership, the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office is one of the premier law enforcement, corrections and public safety agencies in the nation,” said Reece. The Monmouth County Superior Officers are proud to endorse him and look forward to keeping the citizens of Monmouth County safe for three more years under his leadership.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: October 23rd, 2019 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Monmouth County News | Tags: 2019 elections, FOP Local #30, Monmouth County News, Monmouth County Superior Officers Association-FOP Lodge #30, Shaun Golden, Shawn Reece | 1 Comment »
Asemblywoman Joann Downey, the Chairwoman of the Human Services Committee, has buried a bill in her committee that would require psychiatric health care facilities to provide 24 hour per day monitoring of children under their supervision, according to a report on NJHerald.
The bill is being championed by a Hunterdon County mother whose 7 year old foster son was sexually abused by another patient while under the care of Newark Beth Israel’s psychiatric facility in 2015. It has been buried in Downey’s pile for 18 months.
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Posted: October 18th, 2019 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 11th Legislative District, 2019 elections, Monmouth County | Tags: 2019 elections, A3958, Joann Downey, LD 11, Matt Woolley, Mike Amoroso, Monmouth County News, NJ Assembly | 5 Comments »
Councilman Greg Cannon threatened County Officials
Taxpayers paid for political mail

Senator Declan O’Scanlon
Senator Declan O’Scanlon (R-Monmouth) today sharply criticized Aberdeen Township’s taxpayer-funded distribution of flagrantly misleading information regarding the municipal record on taxes.
In July, Aberdeen’s governing body sent out a mailing to residents blatantly, and falsely, claiming that there was no increase in municipal taxes. The mailing blamed tax increases on schools, Monmouth County, and assessment methodologies.
“I’ve worked well and in good faith with Aberdeen during all my years in the legislature. Our good relationship makes my having to make this statement all the more difficult. But the Aberdeen administration failed its constituents on so many levels revolving around this demonstrably misleading, blatantly political, taxpayer-funded communication that I simply cannot let it stand,” said O’Scanlon
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Posted: October 16th, 2019 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Aberdeen, Declan O'Scanlon, Monmouth County News | Tags: Aberdeen, Greg Cannon, Gregory Cannon, Monmouth County News, Monmouth County Tax Board, Press Release, Senator Declan O'Scanlon | 5 Comments »
We’ve seen the news of many thousands of citizens of Hong Kong taking to the streets to protest the erosion of their Human Rights and Democracy.
Congressman Chris Smith has introduced the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act four times since 2014. Today, the bill will have a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives.
Should it become law, the bill will: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: October 15th, 2019 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Chris Smith | Tags: China, Congressman Chris Smith, Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 | Comments Off on Congressman Smith’s Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019
It was one year ago this weekend that we met Spring Lake native Jessie Grieb as she departed the Seastreak Ferry in Highlands during her walk from the Canadian border in Maine to Key West, Florida.
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Posted: October 13th, 2019 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Heroin, Monmouth County News, New Jersey | Tags: Jessie Grieb, Monmouth County News, Opioid Addiction Crisis | Comments Off on Celebrating Recovery

Monmouth Democrat Chairman Dave Brown
Monmouth County Democrat Chairman Dave Brown really ought to do a better job of vetting his candidates.
NewJerseyGlobe reports that Brown has renounced his local candidates in Eatontown because of their illegal fundraising activities and because one of the candidates switched Parties to run.
Last month Brown withdrew his Party’s support for Middletown Township Committee candidate Jean Sager after MMM posted video of her calling cops criminals. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: October 10th, 2019 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2019 elections, Monmouth County | Tags: 2019 elections, Dave Brown, Eatontown Democrats, Jeana Sager, Moira Nelson, Monmouth County News, Monmouth Democrats, NewJerseyGlobe | 5 Comments »
Senator Vin Gopal has been silent about the radical anti-cop, pro-narcotics views expressed by Jeana Sager and Moira Nelson, Democrat candidates for Middletown Township Committee and Monmouth County freeholder.
We gave the senator a pass for his silence when his successor as Monmouth Democrat Chairman, David Brown, condemned Sager’s declaration that cops are criminals. Gopal was on his honeymoon, a trade mission to India with the Murphys, when that story broke. But the honeymoon is over now that Nelson has been exposed and Brown has remained silent.
In withdrawing Democrat support of Sager, Brown said, Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: October 6th, 2019 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Monmouth County | Tags: 2019 elections, David Brown, Jeana Sager, Moira Nelson, Monmouth County Democrats, Monmouth County News, Senator Vin Gopal | 11 Comments »